All I want for Christmas is…
It’s awful! Sheridan’s left for an early winter holiday to London, and Mimi…well, I think Mimi’s huddled in her office and I haven’t seen her for days. All I heard were mutterings about daggers and grenades and stockings made out of human skin, and let me tell you, I hightailed it out of there. As for food, I think the elves bring Mimi buckets of KFC and she’s good to go.
Which leaves, you, our beloved readers! Having been deprived of my fellow RMB girls, I turn to you, to keep me entertained! C’mon, help me out here, and let’s make this an engaging discussion! In the spirit of Christmas, Lola presents to you, her Christmas wish list for 2008. It’s never to early to start your Christmas wish after all.
1. An alpha male. I know, this song’s been sung and the silver bell’s been rung. But no one out there hears my cries! Next year, I want a really good alpha male. Thanks to fab recommendations from you guys, we’ve discovered Shannon McKenna’s alpha McCloud brothers and the even more alpha werewolves from Kresley Cole. Much thanks and egg nog be to you! But next year, bring on more! Give me a hero so alpha that when he approaches, you can practically hear the theme song from “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Dummmm…Dummm… Dummmm…DA DUM!!!!!!!
2. Make Phury’s book good. This seems like an impossible wish I know, but hey, me and Charlie Brown, we believe in Christmas miracles! Maybe Phury’ll toughen up and grow some balls, even if he can’t grow his leg back. Maybe he’ll get a personality transplant and get over his martyr complex. (Because you know, the only martyr I know starts with a “J” and rhymes with Beesuss.) Maybe I’ll have tofu for Christmas dinner.
3. A return to the grovel. When’s the last time you’ve read a good one? We here at RMB want nothing more than to find grovel overflowing from our stocking. You can keep your lumps of coal. What we want is grovel. Big grovels, little grovels, emotionally wrenching-twist your guts into pretzels-grovel. Oh grovel. I love you in the morning and in the afternoon. I love you in the evening and underneath the moon.
4. A book from Judith McNaught. Every year we ask for this. Some years we are rewarded. Some years we think we are rewarded, when actually what we receive is a Judith McNaught romantic suspense. It’s like how you’re waiting for the love of your life to propose, and he gives you a tiny Tiffany’s box and you open it, breathless, to find the gold tooth his great-aunt Gertrude (the one with all the cats) gave him, and which he now gives to you as a sign of his esteem. Uh huh. He esteems you greatly. But back to Judith. Will this be the year when she gives us another great historical novel along the lines of “Once and Always”? See Wish No. 2, for Christmas miracle.
5. World peace. Yup, you read that right! Lola, Queen of Destruction, wants world peace? Why, you may ask. So that all the spies/FBI agents/ CIA moles/ cops can retire into obscurity and become footnotes in the history of romance novels, and we can go back to reading about dukes, earls, billionaires and other ordinary folk.
Will I get my Christmas wishes? This year I’ve been so bad, I’m good. Hey, Santa isn’t complaining. Who do you think put that twinkle in his eye? If you were a romance editor, or had the power to change the romance world, what would you ask for? Feel free to share your Christmas wishes!
Wendy said,
December 6, 2007 @ 2:38 am
Right with you on number 5!
cutepolishgirl68 said,
December 6, 2007 @ 9:20 am
I go with # 5 as well…I am kind of sick of all the ex navy seal guys in the books, but do not really like the werewolves either.
Would love for peace to actually be given a chance.
As for a real world wish, I want my credit card balances to disappear!
And hope when my Mom comes to visit for the holidays this year, I am not treated as if I am still 14, yikes!
Happy tidings to all of you!!
La Lola said,
December 7, 2007 @ 2:46 pm
Christmas wishes and hugs to all! And look on the bright side CPG, sometimes it’s nice to be a little girl again!